The OSCE said about tank battle in Shirokino

Observers of the OSCE mission has recorded in Shirokino - Sopin near Mariupol - 16 shooting tanks and the burning house."in a controlled Ukraine Sopin (near Shirokino), OSCE heard the firing of 16 tanks, 4 mortars and fifteen or 16 other weapons. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mission noticed a burning house and a significant fire in the area of Shirokino, "According to the report, writes the Ukrainian magazine" News ".It is also noted that for the previous week in a red army hospital delivered 50 Ukrainian soldiers With wounds from artillery, rocket launchers and mines. most of the soldiers received health damage from artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), and anti-personnel mines. Before Thursday, the self-proclaimed head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko said that the results of the negotiations in Minsk and Donbass equal to zero. For his part, foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the meeting of the Russian security Council expressed regret at the fact that Kiev still shows no willingness to resolve the situation in Donbass. And NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the threat of a resumption of heavy fighting in Ukraine and tried to convince all parties to fully implement the Minsk consensus. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 4 thousand People. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, for the last time period shelling in Eastern Ukraine again became frequent.